[Rarebooks] FS: YALE Autograph Album Class of 1855

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Fall Catalog of 60 New Arrivals now posted on our website: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com. It contains a fine miscellany, most of 
this caliber, in a variety of fields including Literature, Presidential, 
Hand-colored Plates, Autograph Letters, Early Printing, Americana, etc.

[DWIGHT, Timothy; WOOLSEY, Theodore; et. al.]. [YALE CLASS OF 1855 
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM]. First Edition. Quarto (7-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in full 
contemporary brown morocco stamped in gilt with "James Mc Hose. Class of 
1855." in gilt on the front cover within a lovely embossed view of the 
university. The rear cover is identical except that only the date is 
present.  Illustrated with several engraved views of the campus as well 
as engraved and lithographic portraits of nearly all of the faculty and 
students. The book is SIGNED, often with added sentiments, by over 50 
faculty and students including Yale President Theodore Woolsey, Timothy 
Dwight, Thomas Thacher, Noah Porter, Edwin Corning, Theodore Lyman, 
William Wheeler, and others. Bound in at the rear is a four-page 
pamphlet: SONGS FOR PRESENTATION DAY, JUNE 13, 1855. Near Fine in a 
lovely binding.                 $1,000.00	

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